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The questions during President Obama’s press conference so far are attempts to get the him to explain the size of the budget and find an item he’s willing to

It’s going to be a nightmare for the government if they have to constantly close the hearing to talk about things that are embarrassing to the government, says David Frakt, former defense counsel for a juvenile held at Guantanamo Bay.

Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) denounced Arizona’s Senate bill 1070 during a press conference on Capitol Hill and urged Gov. Jan

It puts any housing recovery in jeopardy, says Barry Zigas of the Consumer Federation of America.

Most Americans are concerned that Afghanistan will become another Vietnam. The Pentagon is becoming more critical of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Times runs

Our finance writer Mary Kane reports that a bruised, battered and little-noticed federal agency responsible for insuring mortgages is about to take a prominent

As Michigan Democrats are scratching their heads over how to resolve the dilemma of their uncounted primary delegates, the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

For the second day in a row, here’s State Department spokesman Robert Wood eliding the issue of how to conditionalize aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He’s

Both Texas and Oklahoma are considering limiting access to RU 486 — a pill that is used to induce early labor and end a pregnancy.

Last Friday, the National Rifle Association held its annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where ThinkProgress asked a number of participants whether the Second

While you were sleeping, the Iraqi security forces and the ex-insurgent militiamen known as the Awakening Councils or the Sons of Iraq skirmished in the Baghdad

To some, Memorial Day signals the start of summer; to political observers, it marks the onset of a contentious primary season that will pit outsiders against party favorites.

A group of House Republicans thinks there are Muslim spies posing as interns on Capitol Hill. Why did Snowe break ranks and vote for the health care

As earlier reported by Michigan Messenger, activists in Detroit say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a school in order to detain an undocumented resident. In a follow up on the press conference held by the Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reforms, Khaalid Walls, spokesperson for ICE in Michigan, first issued the following statement: Jose Maldonado Placensia, a fugitive alien, was arrested March 31st and is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

It might not be quite as dramatic as the recent Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball, and Roger Clemens won’t be there to attract hordes of

There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called clean energy race between the United States and China. But there’s a home-grown energy race brewing that has

More economic pessimism from Paul Krugman, whose skeptical views have a growing following: The United States risks losing an entire decade of growth and

Thought the massive quantities of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico were the only major threat to the country’s southeast coastal waters right now? Think

As Colorado gets set to vote tomorrow, the New York Times notes how both Senate primaries, once considered cakewalks for their presumptive party favorite --